New Delhi, May 9 -- The Supreme Court on Friday pushed for deeper structural reforms within the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), urging the lawyers' body to consider creating a permanent vice-president post exclusively for women 2027 onwards, even as it directed that the post of secretary remain reserved for women in the SCBA elections A bench of the apex court comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice KV Viswanathan said the proposed reform could eventually pave the way for the SCBA to have its first woman president. "Let the General Body Meeting of SCBA be convened where the desirability of creation of one more post of Vice President be considered that shall then be exclusively earmarked for women from 2027-28 onwards," the bench ordered while hearing a matter relating to reforms in Bar bodies. At the same time, the bench recalled its April 27 order by which the post of vice-president had been reserved for women for the 2026-27 elections, after several women lawyers opposed the move and sought continuation of reservation in the post of secretary instead. The court consequently restored the arrangement put in place last year, under which the post of secretary, two posts in the senior executive committee and three posts in the executive committee remain reserved for women members. The development came on an application moved by seven women members of the SCBA....